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First Principles: Liberties of the People Will Never Be Secure With Transparency In the Actions Taken By Their Rulers
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” – Patrick Henry If you do, perhaps 2020, is the time to have clear hindsight and vote … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceal, First Principles, Liberty, Patrick Henry, People, Rulers, Secure, Transaction
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First Principles: Patience Brings Us Our Goals
“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Goal, Great Oaks, Have, Individual, Little Strokes, Patience, Will
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Thought For the Day: Work, Play and Rest With and On Purpose
Work on Purpose, Play on Purpose, Rest on Purpose. Do not let yourself or anyone else waste your time.” -Izey Victoria Odiase
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Thought For the Day: Sometimes It Is the Smallest Things That Take Up the Most Room In Your Heart
“Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart.” – Winnie the Pooh
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Tagged Heart, Most, Room, Small, Things, Thought For the Day, Time, Winnie the Pooh
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First Principles: Public Opinion Is the Ruler In Free Governments
“Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.” – James Madison (1791)
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Tagged Bounds, First Principles, Free, Government, James Madison, Public Opinion, Sovereign
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A Prayer For the Healing
No use whining about life’s complications really, right? So let me just encourage everyone to love when they can and cry when you feel it’s needed. Keep your hearts open and find that bit of truth that works to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Band-Aid, Believe, Capacity, Complicate, Confluence, Construct, Control, Cry, Dark Night, Desist, Destruction, Devotion, Diet, Emotion, Encourage, Epidemic, Fear, Feeling Good, Frustrate, God's Eyes, Harm, Heal, Hurt, Influence, Intelligence, Joke, Know, Love, Made, More, Mother's Kiss, Ocean, Pain, Past, Photograph, Piece, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Precious, Reveal, Shore, Surrender, Tender, Thoughts, Tortured Soul, Tough, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Western, World
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The Very Best of Something
Out there in the Hundred Acre Woods, there are a lot of tales to be told. Some happy and filled with joy. Some are bittersweet such as the feelings that come at childhood’s end… The Very Best of Something by … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Foot, Best of Me, Bittersweet, Bouncy, Childhood, Childhood's End, Complete, Cry, Daydream, Doing Nothing, Dream, End, Enthusiasm, Family, Family of Choice, Favorite Place, Friend, Gone, Good, Goodbye, Heart, Hello, Hundred Acre Woods, Imaginary, Life, Me and You, Memory, Montage of Images, Nowhere, Optimism, Photograph, Picnic, Poem, Poetry, Pot Full of Honey, Real, Sendoff, Share, Smile, So Long, Something, Sweet, Tackle Life Head On, Talk, Those, Thought, Trouncy, Two, Very Best, Yesteryear
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Thought For the Day: Believe In the Power of the Imagination
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Death, Hold Back, Imagination, JG Ballard, Night, Power, Remake, Thought For the Day, Trascend, Truth, World
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